Political correctness will be the death of Western civilization because unlike our earlier forms of pluralistic tolerance, PC is wilfully blind to the lack of reciprocal tolerance in other cultures.

A Notre Dame professor reminded me this week of an old football saying: offense sells seats, but defense wins games.

It did, as it were, have to happen. A human rights body taking on the Roman Catholic Church.

Why was Samuel Alito's Catholicism so much more discussed than Sonia Sotomayor's?

Seven Jewish Children is a document of our age -- not in the manner that "progressive" thought would have it be. But as yet one more signal, though more sharply intense and fevered than all the rest, of how utterly inverted, how ferociously off track, the moral intelligence of our time has drifted.

Respect, religious liberty, resistance to secularization, and reason -- these are the four Rs of Benedicts message to Muslims. He devoted three days to that argument in Jordan, before his focus turns toward the Jews today in Jerusalem.

Dr. David Stevens worries Barack Obama is about to end his medical career.

"I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

When an Ethiopian man in Alexandria, Va., killed his wife, the report in last week's Alexandria Gazette Packet tiptoed nervously around his motive.

The attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church following the Popes comments about the dangers of condom use in Africa in the attempt to prevent AIDS have been an extraordinary lesson in applied ignorance and the survival of prejudice.